A system designed to protect state inmates has led to increased violence involving so-called ‘dropout’ gangs of prisoners who have defected from other groups. Authorities say one group, the Riders, ...

Darius Scott, 35, will spend the next 95 years in prison, according to an announcement from Georgia Attorney General Chris ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Staff at London’s HMP Wandsworth recovered a drone worth £6,000, which had an extended flight time of 40 minutes and the ability ...

Gang visibility often rises when groups fight over territory, drug markets, prison influence, recruitment, or control of illegal economies. The organizations below are included because they are widely ...

DELANO — Kristopher Thomas has been in prison since 2010, when he was sentenced to 50 years to life for killing a man who identified himself as a member of a rival Los Angeles Crip gang, according to ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Some of the gangs South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley listed as tied to violence at the men’s prison in Sioux Falls have the largest gang presence in prisons around ...

Guatemalan authorities freed hostages on Monday who were being held by gang members in two prisons, including a juvenile facility, in riots attributed to retaliation for the transfer of gang leaders ...

Prison gangs are using HIV infection by rape as punishment in a grim ritual known as ”slow puncture”, the Jali Commission heard on Wednesday. Director of the office of the judicial inspectorate of ...

A court in El Salvador on Thursday sentenced three youths to five years in prison and put five more on probation after they were arrested last year following the public release of a video of them ...

Law enforcement officials estimate that tens of thousands of gangs are active across the United States, ranging from neighborhood street gangs to prison gangs and large organized criminal networks.